1) The best way to ensure this is to make the necessities of life (I'm not sure what you mean by "basic luxuries", but let's lump those both together for now) a

1) The best way to ensure this is to make the necessities of life (I'm not sure what you mean by "basic luxuries", but let's lump those both together for now) as cheap as possible. The main reason in our actual world that this does not happen has nothing to do with "free markets" and everything to do with governments putting their thumb on the scales and playing favorites. 2) The only reason you think this is necessary is that for many things, there are too few providers for competition to force all the providers to either provide this information or have no customers. And what's the reason for that? Governments putting their thumb on the scales and playing favorites. 3) Same response as 2). 4) You seem to be ignorant of the fact that, at least in the US, housing and healthcare were once provided in a free market--and given the technology of the time, the average quality was better than it is in the US today. The reason things are messed up today, again, has nothing to do with "free markets" and everything to do with government meddling. In other words, all the things you're complaining about are not failures of the "free market"; they're failures of government.